Hire me for professional training.
Empowering your organisation with creative story presentations that engage children and their families.
Embracing my unique skill sets as an educator, writer and storyteller, I support teachers, librarians, artists and community workers to use stories in low-prep, high-engagement programs that tick off multiple goals.
My job is to help you enrich your programs and deliver greater engagement and value for children and the community. I know that with stories, we enhance children's development, learning and motivation.
Get in touch!
I’d love to hear from you! Just send me an email at hello@annamanuel.com and share a few details:
Your name, organisation and role
What you're looking for: storytelling sessions for children or professional development for adults
The number of attendees
Your preferred dates and times
Anything else you'd like me to know
Once I have the details, I'll put together a personalised proposal. It will include the topics we’ll explore, the session flow and the outcomes you can expect.
My training style
My clients love how interactive, hands-on and relevant our sessions are. Whether it be in education, creative or community spaces, I tailor my sessions to meet you where you’re at and walk with you to your goals because I believe we draw from our unique experiences. My expertise in reading and language development as well as my performance/stage skills inform a big part of my practice.
Because we are working with children in creative spaces, I’m big on tapping into our inner child and tuning into a child’s world and seeing what matters to them, so we can provide a meaningful and engaging experience.
I offer a unique balance of creativity and structure that lets you expand ideas and put them in effective and sustainable practices with samples, resources, tools and templates which are versatile for continued use.
At the end of the session, you feel empowered, inspired and enabled to use stories to make the impact you wish to have on the community you deeply care about.
“We learned so much from our storytelling workshop led by the amazing Anna Manuel. Thank you so much Anna, for inspiring us and giving us new and effective teaching strategies and ideas to help us look at and teach the way we tell stories. We can’t wait to use them in class!”
— Tongan Language School (New South Wales, Australia)
What do I train on?
Different oral storytelling techniques
Kamishibai (Japanese paper theatre) making and telling - read more here.
Engaging multilingual families through bilingual telling
Partnership with the home: Strengthening home language through stories
Facilitating child-led story making and presenting
“The highlights of the workshop for me were learning aspects of storytelling other than reading from a book and making stories more accessible to children. Anna is very welcoming and inclusive. Her presentation was inspiring.”
— Children’s librarian, Goldfields Libraries
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Here are some of my clients who hired me to facilitate trainings and workshop (live and online), curate children’s creative programming, and perform stories for children.
“Anna has moved mountains with her storytelling prowess. Wherever she is, be it in Bangkok, Manila, or Melbourne, there would be stories children look forward to! Not only that, she has touched families' lives through her parent-teacher training on making their children lifelong readers who grow up to be brilliant and compassionate people.”
— Liway Tayag, Educator & Founder Present Parenting Solutions
READY TO WORK WITH ME?
Let’s chat! Send me an email at hello@annamanuel.com.
“The participants’ responses were nothing short of positive comments, expressing their enjoyment whilst learning. I highly recommend Anna in every Story Telling or any Communication Improvement type of workshops, not just for children but also for all ages. Thank you Anna for adding colour to our activity, and for the infectious laughter and most of all, for the engaging delivery making everyone feel included.”
— Sheila Theresa Moss, The Silent Witness Network